CSE6242 / CX4242, Fall 2015Data and Visual Analytics

This course will introduce you to broad classes of techniques and tools for analyzing and visualizing data at scale.
It emphasizes on how to combine computation and visualization to perform effective analysis.
We will cover methods from each side, and hybrid ones that combine the best of both worlds.
Students will work in small teams to complete a research project exploring novel approaches for interactive data & visual analytics.

Announcements and Discussion on Piazza

Post your questions there. Our teaching staff and your fellow classmates will help answer them quickly.
You can also use Pizza to find project teammates.

T-square will only be used for submission of assignments and projects.

While we welcome everyone to share their experiences in tackling issues and helping each other out, but please do not post your answers, as that may affect the learning experience of your fellow classmates.

Homework (50% of grade)

The fastest way to get help with homework assignments is to post your questions on Piazza.
If you prefer that your question addresses to only our TAs and the instructor, you can use the private post feature (i.e., check the "Individual Students(s) / Instructors(s)" radio box).

While collaboration is allowed for homework assignments, each student must write up their own answers.
All GT students must observe the honor code.
Any suspected plagiarism and academic misconduct will be reported and directly handled by the Office of Student Integrity (OSI).

Million song dataset by Echo Nest.
It contains not only the basic information of songs (artist, genre, year, length etc), but also some musical features(like tempo, pitch, key, brightness).
Thanks Minwei!

You are expected to quickly learn many new things. For example, an assignment on Hadoop programming may require you to learn some basic Java and Scala quickly, which should not be too challenging if you already know another high-level language like Python or C++.
Please make sure you are comfortable with this.

Please take a look at the assignments (homework and project) of the previous offerings of this course, which will give you some idea about the difficulty level of the assignments.

Basic linear algebra, probability knowledge is expected.

Additional formal prerequisites for CSE 6242

None, but you should have taken courses similar to those listed in the next section, at Georgia Tech or at another school.